Yousef Khalifa

Yousef Khalifah Fatehallah
was born in Kuwait, 1977. He is an author, photographer and weekly columnist
for the newspaper al-Kuwaitiyya. He
received a Diploma in Telecommunications from the College of Technological Studies in Kuwait as well as a
Diploma in Portrait Photography from the London Academy of Media, 2007. His published works include a
collection of short stories, Al-‘Ain
al-Thalithah (The Third Eye) in 2003, and a collection of very short
stories, Afkar ‘Aariyah (Nude
Thoughts) in 2007. He won the second Leila Othman Prize in 2008, awarded for novels
and short stories by young writers.